Solitary waves in the lower atmosphere

Alfvén waves in the lower solar atmosphere.

The flow of energy through the solar atmosphere and the heating of the Sun's outer regions are still not understood. Here, we report the detection of oscillatory phenomena associated with a large bright-point group that is 430,000 square kilometers in area and located near the solar disk center. Wavelet analysis reveals full-width half-maximum oscillations with periodicities ranging from 126 to...

Stability of the lower cusped solitary waves

where 3 depends’on the cross section area of the topography [see Miles’ Eqs. (5.2) and (5.3)‘]. A year later, VandenBroeck published his discovery of two smooth solitary wave solutions for the same physical model but from the perspective of direct numerical integration of Laplace equation with a free boundary and with nonlinear boundary conditions.2 One of his solitary waves is higher than the ...

Physical Simulation of Baroclinic Waves and Vortices in the Atmosphere

Rogue waves in the atmosphere

The appearance of rogue waves is well known in oceanographics, optics, and coldmatter systems. Here we show a possibility for the existence of atmospheric rogue waves. Solitary waves in plasmas, and similarly in the atmosphere, have been thoroughly investigated during more than four decades [1]. Observations [2, 3] of atmospheric disturbances propagating with no appreciable change in structure ...

Waves in Pluto’s Upper Atmosphere

Observations of the 2007 March 18 occultation of the star P445.3 (2UCAC 25823784; R = 15.3) by Pluto were obtained at high time resolution at five sites across the western United States and reduced to produce light curves for each station using standard aperture photometry. Global models of Pluto’s upper atmosphere are fitted simultaneously to all resulting light curves. The results of these mo...